Short message management method and system

The invention relates to a short message management method which comprises the following steps of: creating management labels, setting correlated short message attributes for management labels; reading short messages, comparing the short message attributes with the management labels; and judging whether the short message attributes are matched with the management labels, if yes, displaying the short messages in a short message list corresponding to the management labels, and if not, directly ending. In addition, the invention also relates to a short message management system using the short message management method. According to the method and the system, through setting the management labels, the short messages can be classified, thus the speed and the accuracy rate of finding the short messages can be increased.